"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Man in the Arena —
Dystopian Media
As terrifying as a “Disinformation Governance Board” is, an Orwellian Totalitarian State is the least of our worries. It is Huxleyan desensitization and the pleasure-seeking culture that is creating the state of the State we are seeing through social media.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a correlation between confidence and competence that only exacerbates the copy and paste insta-share ADHD culture. Dystopian author Aldous Huxley warned of this very thing in his own fiction.
Why Your Emotions Aren’t Serving You
Pathos, Logos, and Ethos are emotional, logical, and moral/ethical modes of persuasion used in argument and debate, all of which are effective and useful ways in which ideas are armed and defended. We lean on emotions far too often and are no better than an unbridled child.